During September and October 2008, I was an active user of Experteer.com premium subscription and this is my honest opinion and review about their services.

DISCLAIMER: I am not affiliated in any way with any recruiting company, job portal, HR company, or Headhunter. The thoughts shared here are from my personal experience only. Any recommendation is based only on my opinion and nothing more.

The web / Usability … OK

In general, I would say that I am satisfied with the usability of the site. Filling out the forms and entering your profile data is easy and intuitive. The advanced search criteria and additional filtering capabilities are really great. The web allows you to refine your search results by salary, kilometers from your home city, country, and a scoring system. It doesn’t have as many features and possibilities as Monster, but I’d say it’s fine.

Exposure to headhunters … Really?

One of the things they advertise is that Experteer is the place where all the headhunters from Europe come to look for candidates … Well, this may or may not be true, but the only thing I can tell you is what happened to my profile: it was seen 1 (yes, one) time by a scout during the 2 months that I was subscribed to their service. Just to clarify, I had 100% of my profile complete (so there was no excuse for excluding me or demoting me because my profile was incomplete). If there’s one thing they need to work on, I’d say it’s at this point: they need to get more recruiters / headhunters to use their service.

Access to “hidden” offers … NO

One important thing is that they do not have access (at least in my experience) to exclusive or offline job opportunities; in other words, everything you can find on Experteer is already online. This is an important clarification because many specialized headhunters, and more specifically in the job market of more than 60,000EUR, have positions that are exclusive to them or are not advertised.

Access to real job offers of 60,000EUR +? … YES

In fact, this is one of the few but important positive things that I got from their service: They have a wide, up-to-date and real base of job offers offering salaries of over 60,000EUR; not like other online recruiters. Of course, you will eventually find some broken links or offers that appear in search results, but have expired, but I would say this happened in a small percentage of time. A rough estimate would be that 90% -95% of the offers that appear in your search results are real, have not expired and are, in fact, 60,000EUR + positions

As a conclusion, I would say that if you have a lot of time to do your research (maybe if you are unemployed), it may not make sense to pay for the premium subscription since most of what you will find you could find. yourself. On the other hand, if you are short on time or maybe still employed, you may not get exclusives or offers, but you can save some time researching … and if you make more than 60,000EUR per year, it may be worth a try. for 25EUR per month.